All questions, discussions and feature requests pertaining to the great Mac photo editing software Picktorial can be posted here.

Picktorial is a powerful photo editor and is actively being updated by the developers!

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I did not find a way to add Picktorial to the list of apps in the forum section and am obliged to start the topic in the “Apple Photos for OSX” forum…If Joseph can move this to a seperate Picktorial forum category, it might be easier to find for new members

A bug report. The multi-touch gesture on the trackpad does not work. When I do a 2-finger swipe to right in the editing window, it does not pan to the right as expected. Same thing with doing a 2-finger swipe to the left; it does not pan to the left. Here's a strange behavior. When I do a 2-finger swipe up, it zooms in. Likewise, when I do a 2-finger swipe down, it zooms out. That should be a pinch to zoom and not 2-finger swipe down. Pinch to zoom works fine though.

- Merging multiple photos into one is currently out of the scope of Picktorial. But the upcoming version will support easy access to external tools, so you can incorporate tools like PS or Affinity to fill that gap until it’s time for us to add them to Picktorial.

- Lens corrections profiles in DCP format are already supported internally (when available in DNG files), and we will add an option for custom lens corrections profiles soon.

- Straighten tool by drawing a horizontal line: will also be added soon.

Like others here I am currently trying to learn my way around the trial version of Picktorial with a view to replacing Aperture. One thing I’ve been unable to do is get my Aperture library into the sidebar. I can certainly import all my photos located on a hard disk which I would be quite happy to work with but instructions make it abundantly clear that I should be able to import the Aperture library. Advice on that would be appreciated. Secondly, every photo that I display is horribly out of focus! Is this a feature that will disappear if I decide on Picktorial and put the cash down? It is certainly a go/no go item for me!Thanks in advance for your help.

APERTURELIBRARIES:To get your Aperture libraries into the sidebar, drag the library from Finder to the sidebar. If you encounter any issue with this please email us at [email protected] and we will be happy to help.

SHARPNESS:Unlike other RAW converters, Picktorial does not apply any sharpening by default (to avoid unnecessary noise) and instead lets you sharpen locally where needed. This makes the image less plausible at the beginning, but it ends up with higher quality results once you sharpen yourself. Picktorial default sharpness is comparable with Lightroom’s once you set the sharpening slider in LR to zero.

Having said that, we understand that this approach may be confusing and many users prefer global sharpening by default for quick results. We will add this option in a future update.

I have tried a number times to drag and drop my Aperture library from the Finder to the sidebar but nothing has happened so far. I have seen the rotating ball thing turning which would give the impression that something is happening but leaving it all day produced nothing!

On the sharpening issue I’ll never be able to tell if I have a sharp shot or not and will have to use another application to check, somewhat defeating the object of switching to Picktorial! Surely, having to apply more sharpening will result in an increase of contrast? I’ve just taken a look at photos taken on a Panasonic DMC-TZ7 and two other compacts and they’re loud and clear but shots taken on five different DSLRs, including full-frame, are blurred! That’s certainly a no-go item for me!Paul.

Please email us at [email protected] and we can investigate the issue help you importing your Aperture libraries.

The Panasonic DMC-TZ7 and some other compacts are supported via Apple engine, which sharpens by default.Most DSLRs are processed using our own RAW engine, which does not apply any sharpening by default.Stay tune for the upcoming release, we add an optional global sharpening by default.

I remember when using Lightroom Trial and to an extent also in Aperture, we had a way to hold down the ALT key (LR) and CMD key (Aperture) on keyboard and move the Exposure, Highlights and Shadows sliders and we would get a direct view of clipping. I could not find a similar feature in Picktorial so adding this here.

Also, I wanted to add another request to enable a colour picker/slider in each of the the HSL modules of Picktorial. that way, user could select a colour directly on the image and slide left or right and Picktorial would automatically adjust accordingly.. I have seen this being used in Lightroom and thought it would be awesome in Picktorial as sometimes, I am not sure which colour slider will affect what exact part of image.. Many times I have to test multiple colors (especially in the green, yellow, orange hues) to get the correct part of image.

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